Dr. Silvia Ghirotto

Dr. Silvia Ghirotto is Assistant Professor at the University of Ferrara, Italy. Her main research interests are understanding the demographic processes underlying human expansion out of Africa and the genealogical relationships between human populations along their evolutionary history. In order to reconstruct the human past, Dr. Ghirotto employs population genetic approaches, including Approximate Bayesian Computation methods and other model-based techniques, for both contemporary and ancient samples. During her time at the Center, she will study worldwide human genomic data in order to shed light on migration patterns and mechanisms of adaptation that modern populations experienced after their expansion out of Africa.

Hugo Reyes-Centeno, Silvia Ghirotto, Katerina Harvati. 2016. Genomic validation of the differential preservation of population history in modern human cranial anatomy. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.23060.